BRKG - RUSSIA SIGNS CEASEFIRE PACT

The ceasefire requires the two sides to withdraw to their positions before the conflict [AFP]

Moscow has signed a six-point ceasefire deal pledging to end the conflict with Georgia, said a senior Russian military official.

The announcement on Saturday came after Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's president, agreed to the pact, drafted by France on behalf on the European Union.

"This has been accepted without changes and signed by the Russian side and has also been signed by representatives of the Georgian sides," Colonel-General Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of Russia's General Staff, told a news conference.

But there were few signs that Russian troops were preparing to leave Georgian territory, more than one week after rolling in to support separatists in the breakaway region of South Ossetia.

The deal requires Russian forces to withdraw to positions held before the conflict but troops were still outside the strategically important town of Gori, 60km northwest of the capital Tbilisi.

The ceasefire requires the two sides to withdraw to their positions before the conflict [AFP]

Moscow has signed a six-point ceasefire deal pledging to end the conflict with Georgia, said a senior Russian military official.

The announcement on Saturday came after Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's president, agreed to the pact, drafted by France on behalf on the European Union.

"This has been accepted without changes and signed by the Russian side and has also been signed by representatives of the Georgian sides," Colonel-General Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of Russia's General Staff, told a news conference.

But there were few signs that Russian troops were preparing to leave Georgian territory, more than one week after rolling in to support separatists in the breakaway region of South Ossetia.

The deal requires Russian forces to withdraw to positions held before the conflict but troops were still outside the strategically important town of Gori, 60km northwest of the capital Tbilisi.